We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.
Most people have no idea what Cabo Verde is or even where it is to mention, so I definitely want to make people aware of this beautiful culture.
I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.
I would love to study cultures and people.
Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.
I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.
If youre going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, youve got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world youre living in.
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in. " It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.
There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many. Everything in politics encourages more red tape - everyone insists government must step in - 'something must be done' is always the cry. We have to resist these pressures.
The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense.
I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza. " It is a divisive mindset.